Top 7 Most Elegant Dinosaurs
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#1 Hastanectes
Hastanectes is voted the first most elegant dinosaurs with 100 votes.
Hastanectes
Hastanectes is an extinct genus of a plesiosaurian with possible pliosaurid affinities known from the Early Cretaceous Wadhurst Clay Formation (Valanginian stage) of the United Kingdom. It contains a single species, Hastanectes valdensis, which was originally thought to be a species of Cimoliasaurus..
#2 Archaeornithoides
Archaeornithoides is voted the second most elegant dinosaurs with 99 votes.
Archaeornithoides
Archaeornithoides is a genus of maniraptoriform theropod dinosaur of the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. In 1965, a Polish-Mongolian paleontological expedition found a fossil of a small dinosaur at Bayn Dzak, Mongolia. In 1983, the find was reported by Andrzej Elzanowski.
#3 Arcovenator
Arcovenator is voted the third most elegant dinosaurs with 99 votes.
Arcovenator
Arcovenator ("Arc hunter") is a genus of abelisaurid theropod dinosaur hailing from the Late Cretaceous of France. The type and only described species is Arcovenator escotae.Though shallower, the nearly complete braincase of Arcovenator is otherwise similar in size to those of Majungasaurus and Carnotaurus; it was thus initially estimated as being about 5–6 metres (16–20 ft) long, but it was estimated more recently in 2016 as being 4.8 metres (16 ft) in length. The skull roof exhibits as a unique diagnostic character a midline foramen, possibly housing the pineal gland, situated on the posterior surface of a slight dome formed by frontal bones as moderately thick as in Aucasaurus, thus less so than for Rajasaurus, though more than those of Rugops.
#4 Bellubrunnus
Bellubrunnus is voted the fourth most elegant dinosaurs with 99 votes.
Bellubrunnus
Bellubrunnus (meaning "the beautiful one of Brunn" in Latin) is an extinct genus of rhamphorhynchid pterosaur from the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian stage) of southern Germany. It contains a single species, Bellubrunnus rothgaengeri. Bellubrunnus is distinguished from other rhamphorhynchids by its lack of long projections on the vertebrae of the tail, fewer teeth in the jaws, and wingtips that curve forward rather than sweep backward as in other pterosaurs.Bellubrunnus is known from a single complete articulated skeleton, the holotype of the genus, having the accession number BSP–1993–XVIII–2.
#5 Iguanodon
Iguanodon is voted the fifth most elegant dinosaurs with 99 votes.
Iguanodon
†I. bernissartensis Boulenger, 1881 †I. galvensis Verdú et al., 2015Iguanodon (/ɪˈɡwɑːnədɒn/ i-GWAH-nə-don; meaning "iguana-tooth") is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that existed roughly halfway between the first of the swift bipedal hypsilophodontids of the mid-Jurassic and the duck-billed dinosaurs of the late Cretaceous.
#6 Anatotitan
Anatotitan is voted the sixth most elegant dinosaurs with 98 votes.
Anatotitan
Edmontosaurus annectens (meaning "connected lizard from Edmonton) is a species of flat-headed or saurolophine hadrosaurid ornithopod dinosaur (a "duck-billed dinosaur") from the very end of the Cretaceous Period, in what is now North America. Remains of E. annectens have been preserved in the Frenchman, Hell Creek, and Lance Formations.
#7 Brasilotitan
Brasilotitan is voted the seventh most elegant dinosaurs with 98 votes.
Brasilotitan
Brasilotitan is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian - Santonian) Adamantina Formation of Brazil. The type species is Brasilotitan nemophagus.The holotype consists of a dentary, cervical and sacral vertebrae, one ungual and remains of the pelvic region, that were collected near Presidente Prudente city São Paulo state. It contains a mandible with an 'L' shaped morphology, with the symphyseal region of the dentary slightly twisted medially, a feature never recorded before in any titanosaur.Although the phylogenetic position of Brasilotitan is difficult to establish, the new species is neither basal nor a derived member of Titanosauria and, based on the lower jaw morphology, appears to be closely related to Antarctosaurus and Bonitasaura.